Like any other festival, there is much feasting during Christmas too. So, these are three different kinds of traditional Christmas meals in India.
THE KERALA MENU
In Kerala, the feasting begins at breakfast with appams (pancakes made with rice batter and coconut milk) and chicken stew , idiappams (steamed rice flour noodles) with egg roast, Kerala style steamed bananas, and plum cake.
Lunch is more of meaty affair with duck roast, fish moilee (fish in coconut milk curry), and steamed rice. The duck roast, a spicy preparation of duck in semi-gravy, is the traditional Christmas dish in this region.
THE ANGLO-INDIAN MENU
This menu is heavily influenced by the English Christmas menu. Since Anglo-Indians live all over India, each family brings something unique to their menu, based on the region they live in.
The Christmas breakfast includes homemade ham, a meat and vegetable stew, eggs and sausages, salt meat sandwiches, orange juice, and tea or coffee. Lunch consists of chicken curry, coconut rice, a mince pie of lamb chops or pork curry with mashed potatoes. The feasting concludes with a Christmas pudding.
THE GOAN MENU
The Goan Christmas is an elaborate feast that lasts for weeks. The community comes together as one to cook the meals and partake in the celebrations. The merriment begins early in the day with filling breakfast of salt meat sandwiches, sausages, salamis, mince patties, mustard sauce and bread and stew.
The lunch is just as lavish with classic Goan dish, sorpotel (pork and liver curry) being the star attraction. Apart from this, Goan chicken curry Goan lamb curry, seafood curry, stuffed chicken roast, sannas (rice cakes), and pulao (spicy rice dish) are also served.
That's not all! There are plenty of desserts to be relished after the main course.
